Sonia Sotomayor 0, white people 1

[Onkel Neal]

The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090629/D994COG82.html

I wonder, would she have to recuse herself on this if she were already in the SC?

[Task Force]

thats screwed up... if it was the other war around that Al Sharpton guy would be haveing a panic attack...

[SteamWake]

Wow Sotamyers batting average is really getting bad. I had heard that something like nearly 80% of her rulings were overturned

Time to send her back to the minors :rotfl:

[Tchocky]

Sonia Sotomayor 0, white people 1

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Read about it here - http://www.slate.com/id/2219062
And here - http://www.slate.com/id/2218393/
And here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano

[AVGWarhawk]

Good bad or indifferent, Civil Rights Act, I'm sure Obama's speechwriters are busy drafting one up to skirt this issue.

[Buddahaid]

Maybe everyone should wear burqa's and be judged by merit. I'm so tired of the whole us over them mindsets on all fronts. What a childish stupid waste of effort!

Buddahaid

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Read about it here - http://www.slate.com/id/2219062
And here - http://www.slate.com/id/2218393/
And here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano

Actually, the debate's over. It's a ruling, and it overturned a previous ruling because it WAS discriminatory against white people.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Actually, the debate's over. It's a ruling, and it overturned a previous ruling because it WAS discriminatory against white people.

But by that ridiculous standard, until the Supreme Court changed the ruling, the debate was "over" and the action WAS NOT discriminatory.

And before we blast that Sotomayor too hard, do remember that she's only guilty of affirming a decision made by an Arterton at the District Court...

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Perhaps Title VII as often interpreted is racist on its merits.

Sotomayor admitted that, while her grades were good, her test scores “were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale.” Sounds like racism to me.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Hey hey! Don't you be talking against my people!

If you think for an insatant Title VII and the current SCOTUS nominee isn't racist you fool yourself. Mr. Obama probably attended higher education by the same method. But he is not willing to release his documents.